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Civil 3D 2012 System Requirements and Portable Workstations

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wsargent
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Civil 3D 2012 System Requirements and Portable Workstations

According to Autodesk's web site Civil 3D 2012 requires the following for a 64-bit system:

  • Windows 7 (recommended) Enterprise, Ultimate, or Professional edition, Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, or Ultimate edition (SP2 or later), or Windows XP Professional edition (SP2 or later)
  • AMD Athlon™ 64 processor with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron™ processor with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
  • 4 GB RAM minimum (8 GB recommended)
  • 12 GB disk space for installation (7 GB for electronic download with at least 2 GB free after installation)
  • 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter (1,600 x 1,200 with true color recommended, multiple monitors are supported)
  • Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
  • DVD drive
The company I work for purchases their computers through Dell, preferring the Precision series potable work stations. The problem I am running into is that the portable workstations that Dell makes only come with the i7 or i5 processor. Since I don't understand the differences in processors I don't know if these computers will run the program or, if it does, what the speed will be. It seems like every time they upgrade computers we end up with something that 'just works', and I don't want to do that this time. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 SP3.0, built on: AutoCAD 2016 SP1, Map 3D 2016 SP2
Dell Percision T5810: MS Windows 10 Pro; Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50 GHz, 16.00 GB RAM, NVIDIA K2200 4.00 GB Memory
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machadt
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Hi Walter,

Please take a look to the attached pdf file created for one of our Technical Support Specialist Jason Hickey and to this couple of post, I am positive this information will help you with your questions.

http://beingcivil.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/memory-management-and-your-operating-system.html

http://beingcivil.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/01/civil-3d-performance-part-iihow-much-ram-is-enough.h...

Hope this will help,

Tatiana Machado
AEC-ENI Application Engineer

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